Mechanical Engineer
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Job overview
The Mechanical Engineer specifies boiler auxiliary equipment, prepares data sheets and requests for quotations, and evaluates vendor proposals. The role also involves engineering calculations for piping and flow-control components, reviewing vendor documentation, designing boiler-system P&IDs, and supporting field service teams as needed. Travel is estimated at 10%.
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Full job description
Specification of Boiler Auxiliary Equipment, including but not limited to: combustion air fans, steam turbines, electric motors, burners, emissions control equipment, silencing equipment and others as needed. In this fashion the equipment engineer generates data sheets and/or requests for quotations, interfaces with vendors and performs technical evaluations of the equipment proposals. Various engineering calculations: for steam and water piping, control valves, flow elements and others as needed. Basic thermodynamic knowledge is necessary. Review and coordination of vendor technical documentation. Home support of field service team as needed for the auxiliary equipment(s). Design of Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (PandIds) for boiler system. Various other duties. Travel: 10% estimated
How this job compares
Set against the 7,601 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$117–160K/yr269 salary ranges
- US median$45–59/hr383 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 798 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in Texas and 7,601 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (6,308 postings).
- Education
- 5,231 of the 7,601 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (69%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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